Locomotive toy



Dec. 23, 1924 1,520,388

F. M. BRESLI N ILIOCOMOTIVE TOY Filed June 23, 1921 INVE NT [1R F. MEIREELIN.

ATT URNEY Patented Dec. 233, 1924i.

T TES FRANK I'd. BRESLIN, OF WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

LO'COMGTIVE TOY.

Application filed June 23, 1921.

T all 10 ham it may concern Be it known that FRANK M. Bnnsmv. a citizen of the United States of America residing at West Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Locomotive Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wheel toys and its leading object is to provide a wheel toy having a handle and a slide arranged to reciprocate on each side of the handle by means of a pitman or link connection with the ground wheel, whereby a motion simulating that of a locomotive may be reproduced by a child with educational and amusing effects.

Another object of the invention is to provide a toy of this character with improved guides for the slide, which will permit 0t cheap manufacture and quick and easy assembling.

With the above and other objects in view this invention relates to certain new and use l'ul constructions, coi'i'ibinations and arrangements of parts clearly described in the following specification and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation with the handle broken away.

Figure 2 is an edge elevation with the handle broken away.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional View taken on line 30f Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrow.

Figure 4; is a detail sectional view through the axle.

Figure 5 is a detail side elevation of a modified form.

Referring to the accompanying drawings 5 designates a ground wheel adapted to be constructed of wood but which may be made of any material and which is provided with a central transverse opening through which the axle 6 extends. This axle is provided with a head 6 on one end and a circumscribing groove 6 near the opposite end. The lower end of the handle 7 is provided with an opening 7 which receives the axle 6 so that said axle may turn within said lower handle end. The axle is keyed to the wheel 5 against relative rotation.

On one side of the handle 5 blocks 8 and 9 are secured by means of screws or bolts 10 or the like, said blocks being disposed in spaced relation to each other. A pair of Serial No. 479,919.

guide bars in the form of wire rods 11 and 12 are secured by their upper end portions in openings formed in the block 8 and by their lower end portions in openings formed in the block 9. The upper end portions of said bars 11 and 12 are preferably connected to each other by a bridge portion 13 so that the two bars may be formed of a single piece of wire rod by bending to U form. The lower ends 01 the bars 11 and 12 may besecured by means of nuts or the like 1% against the lower block 9.

A member 15 having openings to receive the bars 11 and 12 is mounted to slide thereon between the upper block 8 and the lower block 9. To the outer side of this slide 15 the upper end of a pitman or link rod 16 is pivotally secured by the pin 17 which is formed with a suitable head to retain said pitman or link in place. The lower end of the pitman or link 16 is pivotally secured to the crank arm 18 by the headed pin 19 and this crank arm 18 is secured in place by means of a taper in 20 arranged to enga 'e the groove 6, whlch pin thus serves to hold the wheel handle and crank assembled in working relation.

On the opposite side of the handle blocks 21 and are secured in transverse alignment to the blocks 8 and 9. Guide. bars 23 and 2e are connected at their upper ends to the block 21 and at their lower ends to the block 22 in a manner similar to that described with reference to the bars 11 and 12. A slide 25 is mounted to reciprocate on the guide bars and 24.- independently of the slide 15, with which it has no direct connection. The slid 25 has the upper end of the pitman or link 26 pivotally connected thereto by the headed pin 2?, the lower end of said pitman being pivotally connected by the headed pin 28 to the wheel 5 at a point diametrically opposite to the point of connection of the pitman 16 with the crank arm 18. The body of the pitman 26 is outwardly offset to clear the wheel the block and the head of the axle.

When the wheel 5 is rolled over the. ground by a pushing action of the child the slides 15 and will be reeiprocated in opposite directions by reason of the connection of the pitmcn therewith, thus producing a motion simulating that of a lOCOHlOtlVQ.

1n the modified form shown in Figure 5 a miniature shoe 29 may be pivotaliy supported at 30 at one side of the wheel and a similar shoe supported at 31 on the opposite side of the wheel so that a walking motion may be simulated when the wheel is rotated. For this purpose a child can provide a suitable dress or suit for the toy and the upper end 01 the handle may be disposed in angular relation to the body thereof.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A toy consisting of a ground engaging Wheel, an axle therefor, a handle pivoted at its lower end on the axle, blocks fixedly arranged on the handle in spaced relation to each other, guide rods secured to the blocks at their ends, a slide movable on the guide bars, said axle having a circumscribinggroove, a crank arm mounted on said axle, a taper pin extendlng through sald crank arm and engaging said groove to hold said handle and said crank arm in place on said axle, a pitman pivotally connected at its lower end to said crank arm and at its upper end to said slide, a second slide vtor said handle, guides therefor, and a second pitman pivotally connected at its upper end to said slide and its lower end having pivotal connectionwith said wheel.

2A toy consisting of a ground wheel, an axle therefor, a handle pivotally mounted on said axle, a crank arm mounted on said axle, blocks secured in spaced relation to each other on one side of the handle, similar blocks similarly secured on the opposite side of the handle, a U shaped guide bar secured to each set of blocks, a slide movable on each guide bar independently of each other, a pitman connected to one slide and pivotally connected with the crank arm, and a-pitman connected to the other slide and connected with the wheel.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts.

FRANK M. BRESLIN. 

